Potentially support scratch org creation in the background

[René Görgens]

Hi Scott,

Would it perhaps be possible to handle scratch org creation as a background job, with a notification once it’s complete? It doesn’t take long (couple of minutes) with a basic config, but it could take longer with more complex configs.

Unless I’m mistaken, currently I can’t do anything with the project’s UI while scratch org creation is ongoing.

[Scott Wells]

I'll definitely keep this in a backlog but, to be honest, probably not as very high priority. The primary use case for creating a scratch org is either at project creation time or when the project's scratch org has expired and needs to be replaced. In both scenarios, there's not much that the user can do with that project until it has a valid scratch org backing it.

Of course, that also blocks you from being able to work in other projects, but that's a core IDE issue and not an IC2 issue:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-35480

If/when that is properly resolved, you would be able to create a scratch org for one project while continuing to work in other open projects.

[René Görgens]

I hadn’t noticed the blocking of other open projects yet, thanks for mentioning it. That’s quite a bummer.